Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When she first heard about the scheme, a lady magistrate in the sleepy little (pop. 180) village of Spennithorne, England became so agitated that she was moved to sound off one day on a public bus. The Rev. Joseph N. Jory, it seemed, was about to bring some inmates from Her Majesty's Borstal Institution at Hatfield (one of the 18 Borstal reformatories in England and Wales) to his Spennithorne boys' camp. He was also bringing along some Oxford students to live with them. The lady magistrate did not mind the Oxonians, but the idea of having...
...feed the public hunger for new pop names, U.S. record makers flail the musical undergrowth like beaters at a princely pheasant shoot, while fledgling pop singers break cover from behind lunch stands and dime-store counters, flutter out of laundry trucks and prizefighting rings. With luck, adroit promotion and an occasional touch of talent, some of the captured quarry end up making the kind of noises that set cash registers ajingle...
Barbara Lea (Johnny Windhurst Quintet; Prestige LP). Wellesley's gift to pop music launches her across-the-cocktail-table voice into a collection of beautifully phrased ballads that deserve a wider hearing-My Honey's Lovin' Arms, Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You, Baltimore Oriole...
Reasoning Approach. When Norvel Young went to Lubbock 13 years ago, there were five Churches of Christ in the city (pop. 139,000) with a total membership of about 1,300. Today there are 14 churches with 7,000 members (children under twelve not counted). And the biggest of these-the biggest Church of Christ in the world-is 1,800-member Broadway. Part of the credit for this growth goes to Lubbock, but much of it goes to Norvel Young's friendly, reasoning approach...
...this formidable tone (parodied to perfection in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) that has made the eyes of generations pop with awe. They have also admired the precision and brilliance of Verne's descriptions: "titanic crabs pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in grimacing zigzags." But no matter how exorbitant their "world," Verne's characters remain strictly human, sternly Victorian. When Verne died, it was not science that did him homage. It was Pope Leo XIII who applauded the purity and moral and spiritual value of the old S.F. master...